University of Notre Dame - Dome Yearbook (Notre Dame, IN)

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A -MS— Wxt ffiwentg Jomc ' food-purveyors who had poisoned her father, Old Man Past. She expected to find the Hellenic Classicists still in bad in Badin ; imagine her surprise when she viewed a modern Childs bringing joy and sat- isfaction to all, and dyspepsia to none! With heart a-flutter she flut- tered on to see what other wonders Time hath wrought. A new Engineering Building, with 1940 equipment ! A Social Center Build- ing with K. of C. over the door, welcome on the mat, and half of the student enrollment rolled up in easy-chairs within! Still an- other dormitory, modern even to janitor service and running water, near the Library ! And down the road a bit, the fair Lady Future saw Notre Dame ' s most recent building — the new Medical College! It is all wonderful, she thought, as she slipped a transfer of 1920 to the conductor of the old car (the same old car) ! My boy shall come to Notre Dame! Then she pondered for a moment. I wonder, she wondered, if he will find the ' ole pepper ' here that Dad used to talk about! The New Administration Swapping administrations is frequently as disastrous for the morale of the students in a University who have become accustomed to certain methods, as the proverbial business of swapping horses in the middle of a stream is for the traders. Not so, however, the change that came to Notre Dame in the Summer of 1920 when the heads of the several College departments were moved about. Rev. James A. Burns succeeded to the office made vacant by the transfer to Wash- ington of Rev. John Cavanaugh, and with his characteristic proficiency proceeded to take up, in the presidency, the manifold arduous duties which his predecessor had so tirelessly performed. As Director of Studies, Father Irving carried on the work from which Father Schu- macher was called, along with Rev. N. Quinlan, to St. Edward ' s Col- lege in Austin, Texas. Rev. T. Burke assumed the financial worries of Registrar after Father Wm. Maloney departed to supervise the work of erecting Old Students Hall, and Father Galligan took over the puzzles of the Disciplinarian ' s office. From Sorin Hall, Rev. Eugene H 18

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V - . Wxz (jTweutg jBome p ss nymn j6iITm for Her Ladyship, The Future, Glimpses Notre Dame Dame Future, with twenty summers and as many winters perched gayly on her shoulders, stepped blithely from the ole Hill ear — the same tinder box on four wheels that the N. D. stewdents of 1920 were wont to rollie in. As she glanced about, her eyes fell with a dull thud upon a beautiful residence hall, erected on the spot where of yore the corn-fields were. Ah, methinks, soliloquized the damsel, this must be Old Students Hall. What a wonderful place it is — and how they needed it when Papa Past was here! She strode with Seven Leg- stride across the campus in the direction of old Cartier Field, and there a fine, new gymnasium met her gaze with forceful impact. Magni- fique! quoth La Belle Future, and turning squarely in her tracks she circled the lake at a brisk trot. Half way around she ran into the Scholastieate, a building about nineteen years of age, wherein the potential Presidents of Notre Dame were sheltered. Passing out the back door, milady Future continued her mad gallop around the lake. At the door of the church she came to an abrupt halt, but she did not go in — instead she rolled her optics towards the place where Sorin erstwhile stood. Catching the optics on the rebound, she saw that a new hall — more beautiful and alluring even that Sorin — had replaced the old Senior Skivers ' Quarters. Grief gnawed at her heart, but her heart was tough, and she proceeded without tears to look for the Greek S0 17

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ffi A Burke went to Columbia Col- lege in Portland, Oregon, to serve as President, being ac- companied there by Rev. T. Crumley and Rev. M. Oswald. His position as Rector of Sorin was taken by Father Marr, for- merly a professor of the classics in the Pacific Coast School. Father Hebert returned to No- tre Dame from Oregon, and Fathers Cunningham, Ma- l oney, Miltner and De Wolf became new members of the University faculty. Altogether it was a chameleonic year, touched by regret arising from the loss of former professors but brightened by the satisfac- tions that came in with the New Administration. N 19